ⅢStudies suggest that the difficult transition of the Russian economy has led to decreased physical health among Russians. However, the impact of economic turmoil on Russians' psychological health has not been examined. We used Hobfoll's (1988;

The article presents the results of an empirical study of the features of professional burnout, life position, subjective representations of professionally difficult situations and mental states of surgeons from the standpoint of personal and organizational risks of professional burnout.

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The article discusses the study, analysis and systematization of ideas related to psychological well-being (PW) and its levels, models in the context of personal health, free from professional and personal destructions. Employees of the Main Office of the Ministry of Emergency Situations took part in the research. As a result of a series of empirical studies and on the basis of factorization of PW and indicators of personal characteristics, the types of psychological well-being of an individual are highlighted: «socially compensatory productive-passive dysfunctional type», «prosocial productiveactive medium-profit type», «prosocial productive-passive highly prosperous type». Keywordsprofessional burnout, psychological well-being, orientation towards achievements through independence, orientation towards achievement through conformism, employees of Ministry of Emergency situations.

The syndrome of professional burning out is a complex of symptoms and signs evidenced in various negative psychic conditions at individual, interpersonal and organizational levels. It is formed owing to a long mismatch between the requirements of the professional environment and the resources of the expert. Analysis of the preventive and correctional programs as a psychological assistance showed insufficiency of such approach. Creation of preventive and correctional programs within psychological maintenance from the position of involution of professional resources, taking into account the theoretical - methodological basis (the concept, the purposes, tasks, system approach, criteria of efficiency) and the subjective-personal resources of counteraction directed at activization to burning out at all stages of professional development is progressive.